bleán

See also: bléan

Irish

Alternative forms

• blí (Ulster)
• bleaghan, bleoghan (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish blegon, from Old Irish mlegon (“act of milking; yield of milk, milking”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bʲlʲɑːnˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbʲlʲɨ̞ɡənˠ/ (as if spelled bliogan)

Noun

bleán m (genitive singular as substantive bleáin, genitive as verbal noun blite, nominative plural)

1. verbal noun of bligh
2. milk yield

   Synonyms: bleacht, bleánach, crúthach, lacht, táirgeacht, tál

3. milking

   Synonym: crú

Declension

Declension of bleán (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative bleán vocative a bhleáin genitive bleáin dative bleán forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bleán genitive an bhleáin dative leis an mbleán don bhleán

Derived terms

• bleánlann f (“milking parlour”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of bleán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bleán	bhleán	mbleán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bleán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “blegon”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 46